• Welcome to the new B.I.R.D. Forum. Please be sure to read the "New Member / New Registered ? Please Read" thread in the Coffee Shop. This contains some important information. To become a full member ( £5.90 a year ) simply click on your user name near the top on the right I hope you enjoy the new site ................ Jaws ( John )

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Jaws

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He reckons his success is because he is ambidextrous

 

johnboy

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I too am ambidextrous, I'm clumsy with both hands.
 

Jaws

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I am old enough to have started school at a time when it was still considered somewhat rude to write with your left hand ( never did understand that ) so although naturally left handed I was forced to use my right hand to write with which made me ambidextrous ..
I write with my right hand still, but can use all tools with either hand
 

jeffa

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If you sit on your hand till it goes numb it feels like someone else is doing it for you ;)
 

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I am old enough to have started school at a time when it was still considered somewhat rude to write with your left hand ( never did understand that ) so although naturally left handed I was forced to use my right hand to write with which made me ambidextrous ..
I write with my right hand still, but can use all tools with either hand
Left handed …. Known as sinistral
a bit sinister and ‘rude’

my Dad was the same Left hander and made to write with his right and ended up ambidextrous

My eldest boy is left handed, but right footed when he plays football
And when he tried tennis years ago he just swapped the tennis racquet to different hands instead of doing back hand shots he always did forehand shots no matter which side it was on (confused his tennis coach !)
 

Duck n Dive

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I write left handed
I use knife & fork normally but spoon in left hand.
For everything else I'm right handed.
:)
 

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I'm left handed and despite the best efforts of school and the RAF Regt. I'm still "sinister".

They both tried their best to convert me but failed miserably. Primary school involved being regularly whacked on the back of the left hand with a ruler. My mum soon put a stop to that when she found out.

Unfortunately the RAF wouldn't accept her note excusing me, so I had to learn to do a fair few things the right handed way. But I resisted heroically....

It started early on in basic training when we were on the parade square doing drill. Dopey here forgot himself at one point and threw up a left handed salute during one practice.
Cue a tirade of abuse from the drill NCO's, culminating in yours truly doing half an hour of saluting drill while the rest of the flight legged it to the mess for scoff.

It didn't improve when we got on to the ranges. The SLR, the Gimpy and the 9 mil Browning could all be fired south paw, but fire an SMG left handed and there's a good chance you'll fill up the right hand sleeve of your combat jacket with hot brass. I did and out of sheer bloody mindedness persisted because the range staff said I wouldn't be able to hack it.

The LMG was another opportunity to display my left handed muppetry. The sights are offset to the left side, so to fire it prone you need to cant it 45 degrees to the right. Cue some of the most entertaining groupings ever seen by the range staff.
 

slim63

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one of my mates is cack handed in some things he writes right handed, boxes mostly right handed but can switch, plays golf and shoots left handed Annoyingly enough he's a much better shot than me even using a right handed gun left handed ....... GIT!

No idea about the golf over and above it cost a fair bit for left handed sticks :nusenuse:
 

ogr1

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I am a left hander, used to be ambidextrous when i was a young un.
Left handers can see what they're gonna write.
Right handers can only see what they've written....Fact.
 

slim63

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I am a left hander, used to be ambidextrous when i was a young un.
Left handers can see what they're gonna write.
Right handers can only see what they've written....Fact.
Lefties struggle with a proper pen as they tend to smudge what they have just written, crayons are safer for you cack handers :jaja-no:
 
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